Chatroom Revolutionaries Iran's dissidents and exiles discover the Web

Chatroom Revolutionaries Iran�s dissidents and exiles discover the Web.

“”Got a Mullah?” asks a stainless steel coffee mug for sale on the Web. Emblazoned alongside the question is a cartoon of a giant hand clenching two irritated-looking clerics who resemble Iran�s late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

One click away, a heather gray, 100-percent cotton T-shirt proclaiming “Free All Political Prisoners in Iran NOW!” features a famous image of Ahmad Batebi, an Iranian film student sentenced to 15 years for anti-mullah activities. The widely reproduced image shows Batebi�s “crime”: holding aloft a bloodstained shirt that belonged to a friend beaten by regime forces.”